This week on Dezeen, work started on the 400-metre-high cube-shaped Mukaab skyscraper in Riyadh, which is set to be the world's largest building. More about This week construction began on the world's largest building
Architecture studio Fernanda Canales has created a semi-open community centre for the elderly in Mexico, using a circular form and simple materials More about Fernanda Canales creates perforated-brick circular community centre
Dezeen School Shows: an exploration into natural materials such as hemp and flax for use in the textile industry is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Loughborough University. More about Ten textile design projects by students at Loughborough University
Dezeen Showroom: from a modular seating system that connects using magnets to seating informed by skateboard ramps, the following workplace products listed on Dezeen Showroom enhance focus and wellbeing. More about Eleven productivity-inducing furnishings for workspaces
Textured plaster intended to mimic nearby rocky outcrops coats the thick walls of Hytte Riverview, a house overlooking an estuary in South Africa by local studio KLG Architects. More about KLG Architects uses thick walls for coastal "sanctuary" in South Africa
Following the news that construction has begun on the world's largest building in Saudi Arabia, we have rounded up 10 record-breaking structures, including the tallest, the narrowest and the heaviest. More about Ten record-breaking buildings from the skinniest to the heaviest
The popularity of the Chandigarh chair, created by a team led by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, has shone a light on the erasure of local designers in the mid-century modern design narrative. More about The Chandigarh chair "problematises standard notions of revival"
Spooky puppets, original costumes and childhood drawings feature in The World of Tim Burton, an exhibition at London's Design Museum charting 50 years of the American filmmaker's work. More about Tim Burton design exhibition explores work and mind of "unique director"
Lamps made from repurposed sailcloth and cow-print chairs created using upcycled textiles were among the pieces shown at the fifth edition of design festival 360 Design Budapest. More about Eight highlights from 360 Design Budapest 2024
This film produced by Jim Stephenson spotlights the North Gate social housing project in Glasgow by Page\Park Architects, which has been shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. More about North Gate social housing by Page\Park designed for residents to "embrace as their own"
Promotion: the School of Architecture and Design at IE University in Spain has introduced new tracks within its Bachelor in Design programme, focusing on interiors and video game design and virtual environments. More about IE University launches new design disciplines for video games and interiors
Colombian brand Fango has combined design with storytelling to produce the Ibuju furniture collection from yaré fibre that aims to address deforestation concerns in the Amazon. More about Fango designs yaré furniture based on indigenous Amazonian craft
BDNY and The Delaware Contemporary Fall 2024: Design are among current and upcoming architecture and design events taking place on the East Coast of the US that are featured in Dezeen Events Guide. More about Five events on America's East Coast from Dezeen Events Guide
French design studio Hall Haus has recreated several furniture and object designs with slight differences added by local designers and fabricators such as Neko during Design Week Mexico. More about Hall Haus creates "mixtape" of collaborations with Mexican designers
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the reopening of the Thomas Heatherwick-designed Vessel viewpoint. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features the reopening of Heatherwick's Vessel in New York
Extreme site conditions drove the design of House at 9,000 Feet, a rounded dwelling by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects in the American West supported by stilts and accessed via a bridge. More about MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple creates elliptical house for mountainous site
Dezeen School Shows: we've selected nine student design and architecture projects that have been featured on Dezeen School Shows. All of them are focused on agriculture and ecology. More about Nine student projects exploring agriculture and ecological processes
The founder of British practice Invisible Studio, architect Piers Taylor, has created the concrete House in an Olive Grove for his family in Corfu, Greece. More about Piers Taylor completes "low-key" rural retreat in Greek countryside
As part of our mid-century modern series, we portray Florence Knoll Bassett, who transformed how we think of office design with her streamlined furniture and leadership of design brand Knoll. More about Florence Knoll Bassett "led an office revolution"
There are complex challenges to stimulating the design scene in the most unequal country in the world, the founder of Design Week South Africa Margot Molyneux tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Design Week South Africa aims to "grow pride" in local design